The Law Practice Magazine Sept/Oct 2014 issue is out and 
the theme is law firm Finance.
As always. there is lots of good content, including Starting a Financial Relationship With Your Client- Packaging your fee agreement with an eye toward client relations, written by my colleague and friend Peter Roberts.
My Practice Management Advice
Visualizing Document Automation: Five Steps For Success is a free one-hour webinar sponsored by the folks at The Form Tool. It is set for Thursday, July 31st at 10:00 a.m. CDT. I shared this information with a few of my colleagues yesterday and when I began this blog post, I learned that my friend
This post may not have the lyrical flair of The Three Tenors, but hopefully you will find something useful (if not quite musical) by following the fusion of the thoughts of the three law professors that I recommend to you today.
Earlier this summer, I was honored to be asked to give the keynote
Lawyers are very skilled at creating legal documents and one of the values they provide to their clients is quality documents based on research, precedent and experience. So most of the time, a client would be in no position to suggest anything about the form of the legal document or the required language in a
On the newest episode of The Digital Edge podcast, When Lawyers Get Divorced: Ethically Breaking up a Law Firm, Sharon D. Nelson and Jim Calloway ask legal ethics expert Tom Spahn about the proper way to professionally deal with the various situations that arise when a law firm splits up. He explains that lawyers
The annual Big Ideas issue of Law Practice Magazine is officially a “big deal.” Some of you will recall that I spent much time last year promoting the 2013 Big Ideas issue of Law Practice Magazine. (I served as a co-guest editor.) I’m just as enthusiastic about 2014 Big Ideas issue of Law Practice Magazine.
Law Practice 2020 is the theme of the May/June Issue of GPSOLO Magazine and I would be telling you that you need to read this one from cover to cover even if it didn't include my guest GP Mentor column, "The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be," which is targeted to new lawyers. I
ABA TECHSHOW 2014 was a great event. There were several attendees from Oklahoma this year, so some of us contributed to an article on What We Saw at ABA TECHSHOW 2014 for the Oklahoma Bar Journal. The online version of the article has lots of links to other resources. Oklahoma lawyers who have already completed
Peggy Gruenke has written a nice pair of articles on trust accounting for the Attorneyatwork site. Last month's article was Would You Pass a Trust Account Audit? and the most recent one is Handling Settlement Funds: A Best-Practices Checklist. I've know Peggy since her days as a bar association executive. These are very clear
My most recent column in Law Practice magazine is titled The Breakdown: When Things Go Wrong. The inpiration for this was pretty simple. As my friends know, I have had a thing or two go wrong this year. But things are getting better. Lawyers should consider their personal work habits in view of how easy
